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Giant spiders, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen on leather, velvet and growing old disgracefully and a home fit for Gunpowder Plotting
Plus, how Glasgow briefly hosted two Interpols and the quiz of the day. It's the Dawn Chorus.
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Dawn Chorus: Sleep divorce, hurkle-durkling, a heartwarming father-and-son Royal image, and our Quiz of the Day
It's our daily Dawn Chorus, dedicated to bringing you all the things you might have missed that might just bring a smile to your face on a wintry November Monday.
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'Only the richest estates will be asked to pay': Labour's DEFRA Secretary hits back after backlash over inheritance tax plans for farms
Steve Reed, Secretary of State for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, has explained the government's position on inheritance tax and farming.
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The Dawn Chorus: A White House doppelganger for sale, the dog that saw a ghost and how to be better looking than David Beckham
Our daily round-up goes supernatural.
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Curious Questions: Why do we carve pumpkins at Halloween?
The devilishly smiling image of Jack O'Lantern is inseparable from Halloween, but what's the story behind it? Martin Fone explains — and discovers that the festival many complain about as an American import has been this side of the Atlantic for centuries.
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Dawn Chorus: Witches at Gainsborough, raccoon sausages and how fax machines power the railways
Plus, the quiz of the week, Britain's best road and a glorious Cotswold property.
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Country Life 30 October 2024
Country Life 30 October 2024 takes you behind the scenes of Alan Titchmarsh's Hampshire garden, how Britain bought the world's best art and the secret to hunting ghost orchids.
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Dawn Chorus: Boost for Orkney wildlife, strange plants to eat and curious lodgings at the COP conference
Plus the quiz of the day.
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Who was the real St Crispin, and what did he have to do with the Battle of Agincourt?
You have questions about Shakespeare's most famous speech. We have answers.
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Dawn Chorus: Watching telly with The Queen, the one-bedroom wreck that fetched £2 million and our Quiz of the Day
Plus a Paddington Bear hamper, an ancient tree and a house with a terrifying price tag — it's Friday's Dawn Chorus.
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Good news for South London's most famous dinosaurs as the National Heritage Lottery Fund set to spend £30 million on its 30th anniversary
Castles, railway stations and Victorian dinosaurs are among the beneficiaries as the National Lottery Heritage Fund announces its latest plans.
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The Dawn Chorus: A goose and its conker, naked rollerskating nuns and a £4.2 million bronze buck
Plus, a koi massacre blamed on otters and the property of the day.
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Dawn Chorus: The English region named as one of the world's 10 finest destinations, RHS Chelsea going to the dogs, and our Quiz of the Day
East Anglia is in at number eight in the latest Lonely Planet list.
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Country Life 23 October 2024
Country Life 23 October 2024 meets Britain's most pampered dogs, breezes through Victorian houses and tells the story of St Crispin's Day.
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Dawn Chorus: How to weigh a Galapagos tortoise, Wes Streeting refuses to be fired out of a cannon and the international crisp festival
A new website allowing the public to submit ideas on how to improve the NHS has, of course, been flooded with ridiculous suggestions.
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The Dawn Chorus: The Eden Project's rarest plant is destined to take its own life
One of Britain's most popular tourist spots has got itself a Madagascan suicide palm, one of the world's rarest plants. When you find out how its lifecycle goes, you won't be surprised that there aren't many around.
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The Dawn Chorus: We tried a Guinness shandy so you don't have to
Plus the quiz of the day, swimming the Channel three times to raise money for the Garden Museum, and why the moon looks so big and bright.
